hi, sorry for newbie question.
Besides using app2SD, Folder mount, I would like to know if there is any other method for increasing the device storage. By deleting pre-installed apps, etc.
Please help to clarify. Thanks.
Related
Hi all, hopefully some of the more knowledgeable Android tweakers venture out of the Dev forums for a peek here and render some help. I know they get rather pissy if you post questions in there.
I figured I could free up some space if I removed stock apps I didn't use. I have a full licence for Docs To-Go so having QuickOffice pre-installed is a pain.
I followed a guide to move the .apk and .odex from /system/app to a spare SD card and looking at the files in total they combine to be about 6MB in size.
The funny thing is after a restart of my phone I'm no better off in terms of storage space...in fact I lost a couple of MBs!
So, for those in the know...what really IS the deal with the internal storage space?
Aitese said:
Hi all, hopefully some of the more knowledgeable Android tweakers venture out of the Dev forums for a peek here and render some help. I know they get rather pissy if you post questions in there.
I figured I could free up some space if I removed stock apps I didn't use. I have a full licence for Docs To-Go so having QuickOffice pre-installed is a pain.
I followed a guide to move the .apk and .odex from /system/app to a spare SD card and looking at the files in total they combine to be about 6MB in size.
The funny thing is after a restart of my phone I'm no better off in terms of storage space...in fact I lost a couple of MBs!
So, for those in the know...what really IS the deal with the internal storage space?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
there is few benefits to removing stock apps, stock apps are stored on the /system/ partition as you know, the device dosent use this for anything except the os, stock app and other system related items like, .lib files and the kernel, the portion we have as useable data is on the /data/ partiton, so removing apps from /system/ just free's up space on that partiton.
now here are two possible benifits, i removed most of the stock apps, and media files from system to free up enough space, i then did a nandroid backup, and flashed the alpharev sence hboot, giving my device there new partiton tables, it reduce the size of the system partiton, giving me a much bigger /cache/ and a bit more space on /data/ or if you dont want to remove as menny stock apps as me, you can just remove a few, see how much space is in /system/ then using the tut in development, modify you own partition table, removing the free space from /system/ and adding it to /data/, you need s-off to do all this
^ Is it just me or is that very complicated
Thanks AndroHero, that's cleared it up quite a bit.
Can't find a thread for this on the forum.
Been exploring the phone memory using file manager app, and found the folder system/app which contains a lot of the system apk and odex files and is 106mb.
Is it safe to move this to the SD card? Folder shows a last modified date of 16/04/2011 which is 3 months before I bought the phone.
This would free up a huge chunk of the phone memory and provide more room for messages & contacts which is what I'm hoping to achieve, as well as space for apps which won't move to SD card.
ginnerchris said:
Can't find a thread for this on the forum.
Been exploring the phone memory using file manager app, and found the folder system/app which contains a lot of the system apk and odex files and is 106mb.
Is it safe to move this to the SD card? Folder shows a last modified date of 16/04/2011 which is 3 months before I bought the phone.
This would free up a huge chunk of the phone memory and provide more room for messages & contacts which is what I'm hoping to achieve, as well as space for apps which won't move to SD card.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
if am not mistaken you need to be rooted for that...
Think you might be right on this one.
Tried moving one of the apks, and it copied rather than just moving it.
Also wouldn't let me delete.
I'm a bit of a noob (don't hate me), and not sure where to start with rooting, so a couple of questions (and apologies if they're really obvious).
1) I've read around a bit, and there seems to be a disagreement about whether rooting invalidates warranty? Is there a definitive answer?
2) If all I want to do is move stuff out of the phone memory, what is the easiest/safest way of rooting?
3) Does anyone know any way of making the files in the system folder not "read only"
ginnerchris said:
Think you might be right on this one.
Tried moving one of the apks, and it copied rather than just moving it.
Also wouldn't let me delete.
I'm a bit of a noob (don't hate me), and not sure where to start with rooting, so a couple of questions (and apologies if they're really obvious).
1) I've read around a bit, and there seems to be a disagreement about whether rooting invalidates warranty? Is there a definitive answer?
2) If all I want to do is move stuff out of the phone memory, what is the easiest/safest way of rooting?
3) Does anyone know any way of making the files in the system folder not "read only"
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well far as i know - the answers to your questions would be in the following order :
1 - Well there might not be a definitive answer and that might depend on your providers policy etc -
2 - The safest way to move stuff is rooting and if you want to know more about rooting you can find multiple threads about that in the development section such as this one :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1195275
But you need to make sure your device is "S-OFF" and not "S-ON" -
3 - I wouldn't recommend messing about with the default settings of system files etc -
i wouldn't recommend rooting, you can use APP2SD softwares to move your installed applications to SD without rooting, unless you really know what are you doing
I've been on Android for about 2 years now. Just bought the Samsung GSII for myself and my girlfriend got the Wildfire S.
She's only installed maybe 7-8 apps (if that), most have since been moved to the SD card, but she's constantly receiving a message about a lack of internal memory.
Is there any way to move all her apps to the SD card, or another way to free up some space?
** I'd like to do all this without rooting her phone. I'm a complete novice when it comes to modifying phones - only just got the hang of using different launchers.
I'm afraid that in order to move unmovable apps to the SD card, you will have to root the device.
You need to have a phone that is s-off in order to root, no other option as far as I am aware.
sent using tapatalk
Hello. I have a problem regarding storage. Apps like downloaders , to download pdf etc cant seem to store on sd card , they say its write protected.But i can freely access sd card using root explorer and create folders.Moreover games which download data from playstore ( real racing 3) dont download data and say , Please disconnect your device from Your computer. I did move apps 2 sd card usink link2sd but it doesnt help.
All apps still have data in storage/emulated/0
Please help !
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix&hl=en
For future reference, It's customary and relevant to mention what rom/build you have when asking for help. Also titles should be descriptive/specific not braud/generic. For example, better titke would have been "SD card is write protected"
PS. If you had used search (like you're supposed to) and used the descriptive title as your keywords you would have found your help already exists.
TheATHEiST said:
For future reference, It's customary and relevant to mention what rom/build you have when asking for help. Also titles should be descriptive/specific not braud/generic. For example, better titke would have been "SD card is write protected"
PS. If you had used search (like you're supposed to) and used the descriptive title as your keywords you would have found your help already exists.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I am really sorry for not following posting rules and not searching.I am extremely sorry.
But i appreciate the help you gave me even after such a bad impression.But still my games say you need atleast 100 mb free data to play.My internal and ext storage both have more than 5 gb free data.
amil123123 said:
I am really sorry for not following posting rules and not searching.I am extremely sorry.
But i appreciate the help you gave me even after such a bad impression.But still my games say you need atleast 100 mb free data to play.My internal and ext storage both have more than 5 gb free data.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You still haven't mentioned rom/version etc.
TheATHEiST said:
You still haven't mentioned rom/version etc.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sorry again.I have rooted using auto root and my android version is 4.4.2
Hi all
I have a problem. Well, my memory of the phone is busy, and I do not have multiple applications. How to delete old files from this memory?
Screenshot i ATTACH FILES.
P.S. Sorry for my english.
My storage is increasing repeatedly without any apps or files!!
From 1 gb then 2 gb then 3gb then 4gb then 4.51 and is again increasing.
I don't know why
I don't have any unnecessary app or file or root!
Tried power off bit isn't fixed.
What is the problem?
what should i do?
is it necessary to perform reset or hard reset?
is this ever happened with anyone?
Please tell!
EDIT:SOLVED!
I have found the file!
Named passivedata.zipzip
I have deleted this file and now my storage is normal and as of now it's not increasing like before i think.
CAN ANYONE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT IS THIS FILE?
WILL IT AGAIN CREATE PROBLEM?
PLEASE HELP!
EDIT :SOLVED!
I'm sure there is one rough application installed on your phone ... Can you post the list of your installed apps ?
THANKS Jatinkhatri
Problem is solved.
@Yash24 please tell us which app caused the problem. If someone has the same problem, he could find your solution here and not only the question.
PROBLEM WAS CREATED BY MY JIO APP!
IT CREATES A FILE NAMEDPassivedatazip.zip Which is very Very big in size (4-5gb) and can eat the whole space of the device.
So you should delete that file and also uninstall MY JIO app. Because if you will not delete that file ,phone will become very slow and no storage will be left!
SO GUYS UNINSTALL THE MY JIO APP TO PREVENT THIS PROBLEM.
THANKS!